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...displayed a wooden sign: CONFERENCE pour la REDUCTION et pour la LIMITATION des ARMAMENTS. This conference has been in session more than a month (TIME, Feb. 8 et seq.) and from the 5,000 Delegates and hangers-on Geneva businessmen have already got back their money and made a profit...
...tariff probems or international relations can hardly be expected to spend their evenings listening to their amateur though conscientious friends glibly talk on the same subjects. The participants in debates undoubtedly gain something from the research done and the public speaking, but the general undergraduate body can derive little profit...
...coffee merchant husband dead and three children on her hands, she bought 100 Ib. of coffee from friends on credit, roasted it, sold it to other friends at 75% profit. In seven years she had put the children through school. To the coffee business she had added tea and cocoa...
...facilitate this opportunity for the superior student by exempting him from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work of the incubus of men of sub-normal intelligence. The changes will make the degree of Ph.D. in Sociology mean intelligence rather than mere encyclopaedic knowledge and will enable the department to test much better that intelligence...
William Green emerges from obscurity to take up the gage for the six-hour day. Mr. Ford toyed with the idea as long as it seemed to promise profit for him, Edison considered its final adoption inevitable, but it has remained for Mr. Green to take any real steps to spread the system. Yet few know that the plan has now been in successful operation in a modern factory for more than a year. This development is the more significant because it promises to alleviate the American unemployment situation...